Diet has been linked to the diversification of the bat superfamily Noctilionoidea, a group that
underwent an impressive ecological diversification within Mammalia. For decades, studies …

Fossil primate dietary inference is enhanced when ascertained through multiple, distinct
proxies. Dental topography can be used to assess changes in occlusal morphology with …

Dental topographic metrics (DTMs), which quantify different aspects of the shape of teeth,
are powerful tools for studying dietary adaptation and evolution in mammals. Current DTM …

Anthropogenically induced warming is transforming Arctic ecosystems across a geologically
short timescale, but earlier episodes of Earth history provide insights on the nature and …

The evolution of the remarkably complex primate brain has been a topic of great interest for
decades. Multiple factors have been proposed to explain the comparatively larger primate …

The dentition can be thought of as comprising a series of functional modules, which may
include pre-ingestive food preparation, ingestion, sexual signalling, and mastication …

Variation in postcanine teeth is relevant to answering questions about both taxonomy and
diet. In such contexts, understanding the patterns and the amounts of variation present in a …

The penis bone, or baculum, is present in many orders of mammals, although its function is
still relatively unknown, mainly due to the challenges with studying the baculum in vivo …

Sympatric animals may consume diets of differing breadths as a strategy to reduce
competition. Studying patterns of dietary breadth in extinct taxa is difficult because available …

Studies integrating patterns of molar morphology and diet are particularly useful to address
questions of evolutionary history and diet in extinct taxa. However, such studies are lacking …